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AA updated their benchmark a few days ago and haven't retested every model yet, you can scroll down the page and see those in the old benchmarks

the modern internet has given everyone a higher level of immunity to this kind of thing now that it's in the background everywhere at all times; the FBI would need to step up their game today

43% of the US electrical grid runs on natural gas, it's the largest single source by a considerable margin.

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3

it's a LEO constellation, the only way it can deliver Internet in the middle of the ocean is by using the inter-satellite lasers

I used it in the middle of the Pacific Ocean on a Hawaiian Airlines flight two years ago, where have you been

always has been

but I wanted to make that comment, I felt it was important

bro there are degrowth austerity leftists posting in this thread right now, it's not a Fox News caricature

Anthropic is transparently trying to get any competition banned and I'm fucking sick of it.

I'm completely uninterested in the opinion of a video game journalist on what does and doesn't work well in writing software. The author knows about as much about writing code as he knows about performing heart surgery

the author's web-dev job only ever existed because we didn't all stop using the web after the dotcom crash

author appears to think that at some point in the future we'll all agree to go back to how we were writing code in 2019. unclear why

"the talk of AI data centers' impact on the world" has been wildly exaggerated and you can see here that this is the least impact of any major new technology in the history of industrialization

you know there are jurisdictions outside of California that don't take multiple decades to add a bus line, right?

these aren't "good reasons" or unavoidable laws of nature or understandable tradeoffs. it's just a uniquely dysfunctional political system

Look I wanted to like bsky but the fact is that their userbase has been doing as much rage and culture wars and engagement bait as any other. I mean look at what just happened the other day with the paint.net guy

The CA law in link 4 clearly says it covers "image, video, and audio output", not text output. It's right in the second paragraph.

they took the sulfur out of the shipping fuel and everything accelerated very quickly. nobody's even talking about it anymore

no, you don't have to make up some non-idiotic argument that's kinda vaguely like the dumb one and substitute it in there. it's not necessary! nobody's making you do it and there's no benefit to anybody from doing it!

back when the USSR was still a going concern, there were zero American leftists claiming that it wasn't really communist. that only started happening after they failed

I'm not saying externalities don't exist, I'm saying that basically every time somebody makes an argument relying on the concept, there's no attempt to quantify the externalized cost, it's just a vibe. Just go upthread, the argument is just "the stuff you're buying is crap that I don't think you really need, therefore it should be more expensive, however much more it takes for you to stop buying it".

The economic concept implies that we're going to have an evidence-based discussion about how we're tracking specific dollar cost amounts of pollution or something, and then in practice that essentially never happens and it's just "I've decided you don't really need that thing you want"

Yeah, but how often is this? Certainly there are weird hobbyist edge cases that don't do well with this, that's true of anything, but a provider is loading weights once every few months

Every time I see somebody make an argument about "externalities" it's never actually backed up with any fact-based analysis about the magnitude of them. It's always exclusively vibes-based, "this thing you like is too cheap, it should be prohibitively expensive to make up for the thing I just thought of"

Early attempts at this sort of thing definitely did, but these days the impact is minimal

no, the update servers at $sketchy_aliexpress_aftermarket_head_unit_company, probably somewhat easier

because that ended up being the case the last couple times this topic came up and now we've gotten wolf-cried

the part where the article avoids mentioning what book this was is a tell

the neat thing about the models being open-weights is there's a dozen other providers on OpenRouter still at the old price, or lower

I'm sure their coverage on other topics is truthful and informative though and it's only the ones where you know a lot about the topic where it's all a bunch of bullshit